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“Prey for the Devil”: Sensual Illustrations by Joyce Lee
Source Design You Trust Joyce Lee is a South Korean artist gaining a huge following after posting her art online. Lee’s work has been published internationally and received critical praise from publications including Numero and Playboy Magazine. Lee’s first book, entitled Baron by Joyce Lee was published in 2022 by Baron, Archive is the artist…
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The Ritual: Beautiful Fantasy and Medieval Digital Paintings by Kristina Gehrmann
Source Design You Trust Kristina Gehrmann, an illustrator and graphic novelist, specializes in detailed, painterly depictions of historical and fantasy themes, primarily using a Wacom tablet and Photoshop. Her acclaimed graphic novel trilogy “Im Eisland,” which recounts the lost Franklin Expedition, won the German Children’s Literature Award in 2016. Deaf since birth, she resides in…
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An Incredible 7-Foot Long Ferrari 166 MM Wire Sculpture
Source Design You Trust Bring a Trailer Mario Allegretti’s firm created a 1:2 scale wire frame sculpture of the Ferrari 166 MM, a significant early model that won major races like the Mille Miglia and 24 Hours of Le Mans. This collectible piece, featuring intricate details like seats and lights, is now up for auction…
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Stunning Photographs British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker
Source Design You Trust Shirley Baker British photographer Shirley Baker captured striking portraits of punks in Manchester, Stockport, and Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, shared insights about her mother’s work at an exhibition, highlighting the challenges Shirley faced in the 1960s as a female photographer in a male-dominated industry and…
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Jux Saturday School x Sotheby’s Institute: What Was the First Abstract Painting?
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Abstract painting isn’t something Juxtapoz was born with, so to speak. We have had to learn and lean in a bit. As a magazine founded on underground comix and outsider art, abstraction was more in a psychedelic sense than a literal conversation. But we have grown into…
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Vivid, Translucent Quilts by Willy Dion Stitch Together Indigenous Culture and Making Traditions
Source Colossal All images © Wally Dion, shared with permission For many rural and economically strapped communities throughout history, quilting was a necessity. Tattered clothing and blankets were cut up and refashioned into new blankets, their patchwork styles evidence of the fabrics’ earlier uses. For Indigenous people, though, quilts “hold a particularly important cultural value,”…
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Silhouettes and Surreal Drawings Echo Strife and Self-Preservation In Valerie Hammond’s ‘Dreamers Awake’
Source Colossal “Deer with feathers” (2024), ink and watercolor on handmade indigo paper, 25.5 x 27 inches. All images © Valerie Hammond, shared with permission According to Greek mythology, Daphne was the descendant of river gods. Born with a surging hunger for freedom and autonomy, the nymph committed herself to living a life rooted in…
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Voluptuous Growths of Thousands of Porcelain Layers Erupt Across Olivia Walker’s Works
Source Colossal All images © Olivia Walker, shared with permission Innumerable, wafer-thin layers of porcelain ripple into the collapsed sides of Olivia Walker’s vessels. The Devon-based artist throws small bowls on the wheel before affixing countless fragments that appear to rupture and spread across the forms. Layers are attached while leather-hard, the perfect pliability for sculpting…
